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Volume 84, Number 36 – March 14, 2000 NO REGULAR ROTARY NOON CLUB MEETING - TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2000 Tuesday evening, March 21, 2000, is the Lafayette Rotary Club’s Annual
Dinner (Dinner) with the Purdue Varsity Glee Club, directed by BRIAN BREED.
CLUB CONCERNS: Prior to the invocation today, President GENE COURTANEY (President GENE) requested members to keep the following in their thoughts and prayers, BOB BROCK, talked with BOB this p.m., indicated that he was painfully recuperating, walking without a cane, saw the doctor this a.m. and was told it would be a couple more weeks; LINDA EWING, spouse of KEN; BOB HIATT; MARTHELLEN HOGUE, spouse of BOB, called Friday p.m. to indicate that while on their recent trip to Dallas, TX to visit a son, BOB became ill, diagnosed at a Dallas hospital as having pre-leukemia, was hospitalized there for a few days, flew home, doctor here has him on a medication which has helped as he is able to drive, and noted that had diagnosis gone much longer his condition would have been much more serious; SANDY PEARLMAN, who had hip replacement at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis last Wednesday, March 8th; MARV PHILLIPS; JOE SICER; and BEV STONE. CONGRATULATIONS TO:
DENNIS DUNN, speaker on February 29th, requested, in lieu of the Rotary wheel, that $10.00 be donated to the Lafayette Foundation. JOHN CARPENTER back to Rotary after spending an extended time in Naples, FL. Neal Eckard has resigned from Rotary. WELCOME NEW MEMBER: LARRY L. TIPTON (LARRY) with classification
BUSINESS SERVICES--Water-Operations Managers,
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
MAKE UPS: BILL BAUMGARDT, Nashville; BILL HATFIELD, Lebanon; and LE ROY SILVA, Chicago, IL, Louisville, KY, and Columbus. VISITING ROTARIAN: Alberta Barker, Daybreak. VISITORS: Samantha Swinford, granddaughter of LARRY HUGGINS; Ryan Kavanaugh (Sophomore at Purdue), son of RAY KAVANAUGH; Sandy Allende (Financial Advisor, Banc One Financial Services Inc.) guest of JIM BODENMILLER; Ike Tarvin (Owner Lighthouse Housing) and Terry Traeger (Realtor and son-in-law of JERRY COLE), guests of JERRY COLE; David Bathe (Dean, Academic Affairs, Ivy Tech), John Laws (Dean, Student Affairs, Ivy Tech) guests of BETTY DOVERSBERGER; David Roquemore (Senior Pastor, Central Presbyterian), guest of BILL LOVELL; Sherman Kessler (New Ross), guest of BETTY NELSON; and Bob Wilson (R. R. Donnelley & Sons), guest of the Club and spouse of Shannon Wilson, Vocational Scholarship winner. JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL GUESTS: J. T. Gripe and Alexis Leslie, guests of the Club and hosted/introduced by KEN EWING. KEN noted that certificates of recognition would be mailed to each and President GENE presented information brochures about Ambassadorial Scholarships for future reference and Rotary travel mugs (4-Way Test on them) to J. T. and Alexis. SPECIAL GUEST: Enrico Pinto, Rotary Youth Exchange Student from BRAZIL, guest of the Club and hosted/introduced by DAVID BOUGH, host family for Enrico. TOM SCHMIDT, Senior Director, and STEVE MOTT, former Senior Director, Vocational
COLLECTORS: ERIC MEISTER, just back from HI, the entire time; Greeting by SCOTT DOWNEY; Invocation by CHRISTY SMITH; Singing led by BOB GRIFFITHS; Rotary piano by REX KEPLER; and Free Meal Drawing - MIKE KOSMAN and BARRIE SIMPSON.
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There will be a cash bar beginning at 6:00 p.m. with dinner served at 6:30 p.m. Glee Club members, as in the past few years, will be joining us for dinner with one or two Glee Club members at each table - be sure to save one or two seats at your table for Glee Club members. Rotary name badges and check-in sheet will be located at the Grand Ballroom; provision will be made to complete badges for spouses and/or special guests. Tickets, $25.00 per person, will be available until 12:00 noon, Friday, March 17th; contact ERIC MURPHY, Director of Sales, University Inn at 497-9515, or GRIFF at 494-7218 - Office or 474-5596 - Residence. Tickets will be held at the door of the Grand Ballroom.
High School Athletic Department’s “2000 Boy’s Basketball Senior Night” on March 3rd, as an outstanding contributor to the athletic program (BOB served as Harrison’s only team physician since the school began).
Leadership Lafayette, who was honored, one of six from 48 nominees, at the YWCA Salute to Women banquet, March 7th, University Inn.
was introduced by GRIFF, substituting for his sponsor, DANA SMITH. LARRY and his spouse, DEBORAH, are the parents of four children all away from home, and currently residing in a West Lafayette apartment, P. O. Box 2471, West Lafayette 47906-2471, until they can locate or build a home. LARRY was a Rotarian in the Shelbyville Rotary Club, in fact, was President Elect of that Club. He is Operations Manager, Indiana-American Water Company, Inc., Company recently purchased United Water West Lafayette Inc., with office at 2522 Covington Street, West Lafayette 47906-2359 - telephone 463-5531 - Extension 16, FAX 497-3396. 
Avenue of Service, and President GENE, presented Vocational Scholarships of $400.00 and certificates of recognition, to Loretta M. Schwarz,
West Lafayette, majoring in Business Management; Helen S. Shumard, Brookston, majoring in Elementary Education; Tamela Kaye Tatman,
Brookston, majoring in Business Marketing; and Shannon Wilson, Crawfordsville, majoring in the RN Program, all from Ivy Tech State College. Each read essays from their nomination forms and offered a few general remarks. This was a most enjoyable event - thanks to TOM, STEVE, and earlier efforts by Elaine Cue.